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| | Herbal In Germany. |
 | | IN his History of Botany, Kurt Sprengel first used the honoured title, " The German Fathers of Botany," to de-scribe a group of herbalists—Brunfels, Bock, Fuchs and Cordus—whose work belongs principally to the first half of the sixteenth century. |
 | | The duchess may perhaps have inherited a taste for herbals from her father, for the British Museum also possesses a copy of Vérard's translation of the Ortus Sanitatis,' which is known to have been purchased by him. |
 | | Among the German Fathers of Botany, Sprengel includes a comparatively little known name, that of Valerius Cordus (1515-1544), a man whose actual achievement was small, but who, if he had not died so young, would probably have become one of the most famous of the earlier herbalists. |
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